The Good Boy's Bad Side (The Double Life series: Book 1)

Third person POV. Somewhere in Paris Third person POV. Somewhere in Paris The night was deep. What you mainly expect from the city of love? Couples? Sight-seeing? Think again. A helicopter hovered in the air. It was not a military helicopter or a private helicopter owned by a rich guy. It looked different. The helicopter started slowing down and three people jumped out of it- the three of them accelerated as gravity pulled them towards the ground. There were two boys and one girl. Then after ten seconds, they pulled the cords hanging from their backpacks and a parachute came out of it, slowing their air-dive. They tilted their parachutes at a particular direction in perfect synchrony. The girl spoke- " If we get caught Jerry would not be able to save us, right P.B?" P.B( probably his code name) replied-" Yes it is," then he added-" What does P.B stand for?" "Pimple boy." The other boy clearly looking older than the other two chuckled. "Really Mendes girl? That was only one time I had got a pimple on my nose!" He scoffed. "Yes, that is why, I gave you the name," Mendes girl smiled. She liked the name Mendes girl. "Shut up," P.B said and then looked at the building below them. "Cool story bro. In what chapter do YOU shut the fu** up?" She said smiling triumphantly with her come back. P.B snorted knowing how a badass his sister is. The building had forty floors. And it was really wide. If someone saw it for the first time, he/she would mistake it for an office building. But it was not an ordinary office, it was one of the headquarters of some of the biggest chemical laboratories which invented some of the most lethal weapons in humanity's history. It had two terraces and the top ten floors lied on the first lower terrace. P.B knew that this was the place they had to break in. "Okay, guys we have to land on the thirtieth floor east balcony right?" the older man said. Before they landed they replied-" Yeah, chipmunk" Chipmunk could not reply because he had already touched his legs on the balcony. The balcony was abnormally large. Hence, they did not have much problem with putting their parachutes in their bags and besides all they had to do was simply press a button. "Seriously," Chipmunk said folding his arms," you guys are so irritating- like a) I have to take orders from kids who are five years younger than me and b) they seriously had to go for the name chipmunk?" The kids rolled their eyes and then replied-" Your name is Alvin," P.B replied first and Mendes girl completed his sentence," You know Alvin the chipmunk." and high-fived each other. "No wonder you are twins," Chipmunk said. The twins smiled mockingly at him and then the boy poked Alvin saying," If. You. don't. Listen. To. Us. You. Are. Never. Going. To. Be. Like. Us," poking Alvin after each word. When it came to leadership without the twins' elder brother, P.B would always become authoritative. Alvin was not related to the twins except being junior to them. "Seriously you guys stop," Mendes girl said putting her hands on her hips," Chipmunk leads the way." Chipmunk muttered something and got into the room after opening the balcony door by force. No one was in the room, and the room was unfurnished. Chipmunk started walking out of the door of the room and as soon as he put one step, P.B pulled him by his shirt from the back. "What are you doing?" Chipmunk whispered shouted at him. "What are YOU doing?" He replied by stressing on 'you', "You are supposed to check the security and then walk out, i***t!" All chipmunk replied was an, "Oh." Then P.B looked at his sister and whispered," Take care of him. Chipmunk will tell the directions and I will lead the way." Then the three of them took cover by the wall adjacent to the open door. P.B got on one knee and peeped across the corridor. He saw two armed guards holding guns talking with each other as P.B signalled his partners to stop. They waited. Then the guards disappeared around the corner going opposite the group's designated path. "Follow me," P.B whispered and bent his back and kept his head low and started walking at a fast pace. It looked more or less like running. The plan was in action. The team managed to get away quietly as Chipmunk gave directions and his seniors took turns adequately. It was not like they were following blindly, they had been here a lot of times as fake guests. "Left?" P.B asked in silence. "Right" They took a left as Chipmunk stopped him. "What?" "You are supposed to take a right," Chipmunk said showing him his tablet. P.B huffed and changed their direction. They finally stopped and straightened their backs. All of them saw an open duct on one of the walls. The twins smiled, happy that Chipmunk did not lead them again to the recreational centre where guards played Call of Duty when they got a break. Chipmunk being the oldest was told to give them boosts as the duct was out of reach and the three of them crawled in the ducts with adequate light provided by a gadget located at the back of their ears. They were not only able to see their surrounding in different views with the gadgets, but the advantages were also endless. They were near the CCTV room, and they had to drop from the duct because it did not lead them straight into the room. As P.B cut the cover of the duct and looked down. They were just above a man guarding the entrance to the room. P.B said," I will take care of him." Mendes girl looked at her brother, he got down from the cover and landed on top of the guard like a hunter. She watched in awe as his brother took care of the adult by twisting his right arm and injecting a syringe on the adult's neck. She got out of her trance and then dropped from the duct. Her brother and chipmunk dragged the unconscious man's body and hid it under the table. P.B gave chipmunk a pen drive along with giving him some instructions on taking out the people who keep a watch on the cameras and how to put the camera footage on a loop. Chipmunk nodded his head as he took the pen drive from P.B so as to follow his senior's second instruction. Then he went in as the twins sat behind the sofa even though they wished they could sit on it other than sitting on the floor. But there was a fairly good chance that this comfort could lead them into trouble by bearing their fingerprints. P.B seemed deep in thought as his sister asked him-"Having second thoughts?" "What?" he said breaking out of his trance," No, it is just...is it weird that I am thinking about my Geography test?" She shook her head-"I don't think so, I was thinking that it was so funny that we could be termed as some of the youngest and the biggest criminals even though we are doing it for the greater good and without our organization's help we would..." she trailed off. P.B could not agree more. The door of the room opened and Chipmunk walked out of it-"The cameras are in a loop, we have 20 minutes in our hands." And with that, they started heading towards the other side of the building- The open courtyard on the 30th floor. As they stepped into the courtyard, tiptoeing and avoiding the guards, P.B felt a sense of foreshadowing. They headed towards the additional 10 floors. There was a fire escape outside as they climbed the stairs discreetly because it was in the open. They finally reached a large window having a thick sill on which they stood. P.B looked outside as he could see the Eiffel Tower which was quite far from them. It looked as big as his thumb if we take P.B's perspective into account. He wished he was sent for vacationing. "Yes I can see your house from here, can we head on?" Chipmunk said sounding really restless. P.B did not like the sarcasm of his junior. They opened the inner windows using adequate tools as they found themselves in a large room. When P.B looked down, he found the bottom lying 25 feet below him. That was when he realized that 2 or 3 floors were combined together. P.B wanted to jump but he knew he would break his bones. He looked at Mendes girl as she looked at Alvin. Alvin brought his backpack in front of him and started searching for something. Then he revealed a rope which he tied on one of the very big and thick hooks attached to the wall(P.B did not know why) just below them and released the other end as it swayed. P.B first got down, followed by Mendes girl and then Alvin as they left the rope hanging there. " We have got 15 minutes in our hands, we better steal the chip before the cameras start showing the real images," he instructed. This was the most critical part of the mission. "That's your work, I'll just sip coffee here," Chipmunk said as he pretended to drink coffee by holding an imaginary cup. "Your behaviour is also counted, mister," Mendes girl said whacking Alvin's head. She nodded towards P.B to continue. P.B was standing in front of a glass case having a small chip on its bottom. He breathed as he took out a round disc which clung on his belt and attached the end of the wire that came out of the disc and joined it to the back side of the glass case that was kept on a stand. There were about 5 stands in the room. He commenced typing at a fast pace. Numbers and alphabets clouded the screen. He smiled as he hacked into the system. This skill had brought him some delightful memories and where there are delightful memories there is gloom behind them. There was a click followed by the automatic opening of the glass door making a hissing sound. He succeeded. P.B used his gloved hand and took the chip out and held it tightly in his palm. He has officially committed a crime. Not that he has not done it before. P.B looked at Alvin and made a decision. He held the chip out to him as Chipmunk raised an eyebrow. P.B spoke-" Well you did about fifty per cent of the job so here is your reward, don't keep it forever, we have to give it to Jer." Alvin picked the chip and kept it in his side bag and closed the flap-"Thanks." P.B nodded as he looked at his sister. Then at his disc which was right now working like a computer. Alvin scrambled towards the rope still hanging from the hook and started climbing it by pushing one foot at a time. Making sure gravity does not work its magic. P.B was about to back up too as he removed the wire but more information started coming out of nowhere. "762A01- This chip is extremely severe and.." P.B started reading as his sister poked him-" Hello I am pretty sure you don't want to spend your time in jail." P.B held out his hand telling her to stop. "Wait, just a sec." "...is the key to some of the most lethal viruses and if it spreads it will..." P.B stopped as he heard his sister whispered loudly-"What the fu** are you doing?" P.B closed his tab and put it back on his belt and followed where his sister was looking when his eyes finally landed on Chipmunk. He was pulling the rope back up. P.B tried to think positive because he was scared of the truth he was going to face. "Chipmunk what are you doing?" He first got a grunt and then a response-" Stop calling me that." P.B was confused. Alvin was not like this before. He looked up at them smiling. P.B said-"Alvin stop joking around and give us the rope. We had a plan." "No, you had a plan," Alvin said pointing at them, "Turns out I have my own." P.B realized that he had given him the chip. "Chipmunk this is not expected or accepted," Mendes girl said her expression turning serious. "Call me that once more," Alvin said as he took out a gun from his pocket which P.B was not able to see thanks to the darkness," You will pay the price." Mendes girl raised her hands up completely baffled. Is he out of his goddamn mind?-" So what are you gonna do, shoot us now?" At the word 'shoot', her fraternal twin stood up in front of her shielding her from Chipmunk's bullet. In the movies, you see that the heroes can easily shoot at a person who is aiming at them. But this was the reality. One of them would get killed if the other moves. P.B slowly put his hands up. "Aw! Who does not like an over-protective brother? Too bad that Mendes girl will remain single her entire life." Chipmunk said dramatically keeping his aim firm on both of them. "You would never get away with this. Once Jerry gets to know about it he will not kill you, he will maroon you to the Atacama desert. You don't know what you are doing," P.B wished that he could physically punch Chipmunk as he imagined it so perfect in his brain. Chipmunk scoffed-"Oh really? Because I think I am the only person in this room what the hell he is doing! At least I know my goals, what about you? You just do these frivolous things for some petty money!" P.B understood what he said at once but Mendes girl had to rack her brain before doing so. "You don't know anything about us, there is a long story behind it." He replied sharply. Before Alvin could say anything Mendes girl said-"Just shoot us already." Yup, she sounded more bored that she preferred death before it. P.B looked at her and realized that it was finally time to call the mental hospital. "My pleasure," he said and pulled the trigger. But he shifted his gun and changed his aim- to the glass case which had the stolen chip. 'Bang' P.B covered his ears in surprise. The glass shattered and alarms started blaring loudly. "HA! You really think I was going to get rid of you! I just need to keep you away for a while!" P.B saw that the gun was not pointed at them anymore. He held his sister's hand and started running towards their right. Alvin saw that coming hence shot at the glass case which was near them. They stopped again, and Mendes girl was worried that her brother got hurt. She looked at him as he saw a hint of blood coming from P.B's knee. The glass which had shattered- scratched P.B's suit. "Not yet! Want to give the guards a decent headstart," Chipmunk said as noises of incoming footsteps could be heard from the background. Mendes girl looked at him, shooting daggers at him as P.B tried to stop the blood flow. "Yup that's my cue! Say hello to the detention cell's warden from me," Chipmunk said saluting them with his gun as both the twins silently wished that it would go off. Too bad it didn't. Then he disappeared. The twins looked at each other than immediately went off in different directions. They both sat against the stands having the undamaged glass cases on it. P.B wished he had not given him the chip. Ugh! One man appeared followed by another and more people came from the entrance, their guns tugged on their belts, inspecting who broke in. Then they revealed it pointing it at the shattered glass as they laid their eyes on that first. P.B looked at his sister as she started removing a crossbow from her belt and loaded it. Then she looked at him as he made a cross saying that -we can't resort to violence in American sign language. She signed to him that she doesn't want to get arrested. It's too risky fighting by hand. He sighed in response. Mendes girl stood up and shot a man on the leg. the man slowly showed signs of convulsion then fell, lying on the ground unconscious. "Well shuck it," P.B cursed under his breath as the guards started shooting at them. He slowly took out his tranquillizing gun and stood up to react when someone held his right hand. Being caught off-guard, he dropped his gun because the attacker also twisted his wrist. "How stupid!" P.B thought to himself. He took some time to observe who his attacker was. It was a man clearly looking as if he was 15 years older than P.B with a trimmed beard and had amber eyes. He was enormously tall but his brains seemed as if they were in the feet, he was not carrying a weapon at all. Before Pimple Boy could react, the man threw a heavy punch on P.B's right cheek. He was caught off guard and muttered a curse not really accepting to ears at all. Before the man could land another punch on P.B, he attacked. He punched him with his left hand repeatedly on the stomach of his rival with his right hand still bound. Without a pause. P.B let out his anger, angry on the chipmunk, angry with the bearded man and the worst of all- Scared that he might fail his Geography test. The bearded man continued to hold his hand while trying to figure out how to defend himself. Then P.B immediately lifted his knee and kicked him right on the groin as he himself knows the consequences. The bearded man released his right hand and winced with pain. With that settled, he finally made the man unconscious by swinging his right elbow and elbowing him right on the nose. He fell. He looked at the man for a while. Tilting his head in amusement. Then he finally broke out of his trance and picked up his gun which was lying right beside his feet. He looked in front as two men lifted their guns, aimed at him. P.B rolled and took cover beside the stand as their bullets landed on the ground where P.B was initially standing. He quickly reloaded his gun and shot the two of them- one on the leg and the other on the wrist. They dropped their weapons and showing small convulsions, then fell on the ground snoring loudly. "Well, they got their sleep, wish I got that too," Pimple boy mumbled to himself. Then he finally realized that his sister was also there. He looked around trying to find her as he shot four men in a row. He didn't give a second glance. He was only thinking about her. More people started coming and as he shot one man who fell on his knees, he spotted Mendes girl's hair. He ran towards her, a bullet barely missing him. She had turned a table (which P.B did not notice before) on its edge as the table now became an effective cover for her. Her twin ran towards her and joined her. "What are we supposed to do?" Pimple Boy said as he gritted his teeth by shooting one man in two shots. "I guess we should surrender?'' That came more like a question. Even in the seriousness of the situation, he snorted. "Hey bro! You know it is not a video game," she said as she pulled the string of her crossbow and sent her arrow having an injection at the end to a random man's neck. "Yeah, but people are falling left and right!" Well, he was not wrong. Then a voice could be heard by the both of them. Their younger brother was communicating through a gadget which served as a source of light before in the duct- " Are you partying down there? What the hell is going-" "Long story short, Alvin ditched us, ditched us in the gadget room, we just found new companions who are really trying to kill us," Pimple boy said like a poem. "In short- you are not partying?" Was the reply. Mendes girl interjected-" STFU! (Both of her brothers cringed), help us or what?" She was so busy putting people to sleep her grammar messed up. "If you can come to the terrace, Landy and I can pick you up," He said and added," just stick with the names." " We try," both of them said in unison and looked at each other as their brother was out. Then they continued with their business shooting at the guards one by one. It was not really as tough as it was before. Mendes girl-"It's kind of your fault too, why the heck did you give the chipmunk the chip." Pimple boy-" I was trying to be nice." "Nice, my ass." "I swear if you said that to a boy I will-" "-kill me." "Stop with that-" "proof that your twin brother is stupid.'' "Mendes girl-" "-is amazing and talented, agreed." P.B silently cursed-" Is there a fire escape, here?" "I don't think-there!" She said pointing at a door on which was written-"Emergency Staircase." They both looked at each other, silently agreeing that their conversations will continue and ran towards their way out of this trap. Beads of sweat rolled down P.B's forehead as he looked back making sure nobody was following them. And also it was quite tough, owing to the number of people lying on the floor snoring peacefully. Then he looked in front and saw someone holding onto Mendes girl's hair and shoved her into a wall. P.B's eyes widened as he quickened his pace and pounced upon that someone and was soon on his stomach, firing repeated punches on his face. "You son of a --" He was cut off by his sister who pulled, more like yanked up his right arm and P.B stood up looking at the guard. " We don't want murder here," she said professionally and pulled the handle of the door which was providentially unlocked. Then she twisted her body towards him as soon as they were ready-"Thanks pimple boy." Pimple boy incompetently brushed his hair and both of them hastened to the staircase. They skipped one step at a time, their bodies begging them to stop but they didn't. They continue to climb the stairs. ***** He heard snores, loud snores as he slowly started waking up. He looked up, at the upper bunk of the bunk bed. He pushed his hands on the mattress and rubbed his eyes when he was finally in a sitting position. He pounded at the bottom of the bed above him- "Stop with the snoring. Let me sleep!" Even though he was kind of happy that he didn't see the full dream. He got a fart in response as he scrunched his nose, disgusted-" That was not the response. Say goodbye to your wifi for a day." "No..." he heard faint sounds and the snoring stopped. He smiled triumphantly and lied down on his bed. He turned right to see the clock hung on the wall. 01:35 am. The time of the same night... He then lied on his back, both of his hands on the back of his head thinking about his dream. He was not a big fan of it. In fact, he wished that that was just a dream not a memory. Even though he survived that night, his dream which is only the first part of it he could not help but imagine the other consequences. Then he closed his eyes blocking it all. But he knew it was certain that- He and his family are not safe. ***** Stay tuned for the second part of the night. To all the amazing readers out there, thank you so much for giving this book a chance!! (P.S I know it is much better than the prologue before.) The night was deep. What you mainly expect from the city of love? Couples? Sight-seeing? Think again. A helicopter hovered in the air. It was not a military helicopter or a private helicopter owned by a rich guy. It looked different. The helicopter started slowing down and three people jumped out of it- the three of them accelerated as gravity pulled them towards the ground. There were two boys and one girl. Then after ten seconds, they pulled the cords hanging from their backpacks and a parachute came out of it, slowing their air-dive. They tilted their parachutes at a particular direction in perfect synchrony. The girl spoke- " If we get caught Jerry would not be able to save us, right P.B?" P.B( probably his code name) replied-" Yes it is," then he added-" What does P.B stand for?" "Pimple boy." The other boy clearly looking older than the other two chuckled. "Really Mendes girl? That was only one time I had got a pimple on my nose!" He scoffed. "Yes, that is why, I gave you the name," Mendes girl smiled. She liked the name Mendes girl. "Shut up," P.B said and then looked at the building below them. "Cool story bro. In what chapter do YOU shut the fu** up?" She said smiling triumphantly with her come back. P.B snorted knowing how a badass his sister is. The building had forty floors. And it was really wide. If someone saw it for the first time, he/she would mistake it for an office building. But it was not an ordinary office, it was one of the headquarters of some of the biggest chemical laboratories which invented some of the most lethal weapons in humanity's history. It had two terraces and the top ten floors lied on the first lower terrace. P.B knew that this was the place they had to break in. "Okay, guys we have to land on the thirtieth floor east balcony right?" the older man said. Before they landed they replied-" Yeah, chipmunk" Chipmunk could not reply because he had already touched his legs on the balcony. The balcony was abnormally large. Hence, they did not have much problem with putting their parachutes in their bags and besides all they had to do was simply press a button. "Seriously," Chipmunk said folding his arms," you guys are so irritating- like a) I have to take orders from kids who are five years younger than me and b) they seriously had to go for the name chipmunk?" The kids rolled their eyes and then replied-" Your name is Alvin," P.B replied first and Mendes girl completed his sentence," You know Alvin the chipmunk." and high-fived each other. "No wonder you are twins," Chipmunk said. The twins smiled mockingly at him and then the boy poked Alvin saying," If. You. don't. Listen. To. Us. You. Are. Never. Going. To. Be. Like. Us," poking Alvin after each word. When it came to leadership without the twins' elder brother, P.B would always become authoritative. Alvin was not related to the twins except being junior to them. "Seriously you guys stop," Mendes girl said putting her hands on her hips," Chipmunk leads the way." Chipmunk muttered something and got into the room after opening the balcony door by force. No one was in the room, and the room was unfurnished. Chipmunk started walking out of the door of the room and as soon as he put one step, P.B pulled him by his shirt from the back. "What are you doing?" Chipmunk whispered shouted at him. "What are YOU doing?" He replied by stressing on 'you', "You are supposed to check the security and then walk out, i***t!" All chipmunk replied was an, "Oh." Then P.B looked at his sister and whispered," Take care of him. Chipmunk will tell the directions and I will lead the way." Then the three of them took cover by the wall adjacent to the open door. P.B got on one knee and peeped across the corridor. He saw two armed guards holding guns talking with each other as P.B signalled his partners to stop. They waited. Then the guards disappeared around the corner going opposite the group's designated path. "Follow me," P.B whispered and bent his back and kept his head low and started walking at a fast pace. It looked more or less like running. The plan was in action. The team managed to get away quietly as Chipmunk gave directions and his seniors took turns adequately. It was not like they were following blindly, they had been here a lot of times as fake guests. "Left?" P.B asked in silence. "Right" They took a left as Chipmunk stopped him. "What?" "You are supposed to take a right," Chipmunk said showing him his tablet. P.B huffed and changed their direction. They finally stopped and straightened their backs. All of them saw an open duct on one of the walls. The twins smiled, happy that Chipmunk did not lead them again to the recreational centre where guards played Call of Duty when they got a break. Chipmunk being the oldest was told to give them boosts as the duct was out of reach and the three of them crawled in the ducts with adequate light provided by a gadget located at the back of their ears. They were not only able to see their surrounding in different views with the gadgets, but the advantages were also endless. They were near the CCTV room, and they had to drop from the duct because it did not lead them straight into the room. As P.B cut the cover of the duct and looked down. They were just above a man guarding the entrance to the room. P.B said," I will take care of him." Mendes girl looked at her brother, he got down from the cover and landed on top of the guard like a hunter. She watched in awe as his brother took care of the adult by twisting his right arm and injecting a syringe on the adult's neck. She got out of her trance and then dropped from the duct. Her brother and chipmunk dragged the unconscious man's body and hid it under the table. P.B gave chipmunk and gave him instructions on taking out the people who keep a watch on the cameras and how to put the camera footage on a loop. Chipmunk nodded his head as he took the pen drive from P.B so as to follow his senior's second instruction. Then he went in as the twins sat behind the sofa even though they wished they could sit on it other than sitting on the floor. But there was a fairly good chance that this comfort could lead them into trouble by bearing their fingerprints. P.B seemed deep in thought as his sister asked him-"Having second thoughts?" "What?" he said breaking out of his trance," No, it is just...is it weird that I am thinking about my Geography test?" She shook her head-"I don't think so, I was thinking that it was so funny that we could be termed as some of the youngest and the biggest criminals even though we are doing it for the greater good and without our organization's help we would..." she trailed off. P.B could not agree more. The door of the room opened and Chipmunk walked out of it-"The cameras are in a loop, we have 20 minutes in our hands." And with that, they started heading towards the other side of the building- The open courtyard on the 30th floor. As they stepped into the courtyard, tiptoeing and avoiding the guards, P.B felt a sense of foreshadowing. They headed towards the additional 10 floors. There was a fire escape outside as they climbed the stairs discreetly because it was in the open. They finally reached a large window having a thick sill on which they stood. P.B looked outside as he could see the Eiffel Tower which was quite far from them. It looked as big as his thumb if we take P.B's perspective into account. He wished he was sent for vacationing. "Yes I can see your house from here, can we head on?" Chipmunk said sounding really restless. P.B did not like the sarcasm of his junior. They opened the inner windows using adequate tools as they found themselves in a large room. When P.B looked down, he found the bottom lying 25 feet below him. That was when he realized that 2 or 3 floors were combined together. P.B wanted to jump but he knew he would break his bones. He looked at Mendes girl as she looked at Alvin. Alvin brought his backpack in front of him and started searching for something. Then he revealed a rope which he tied on one of the very big and thick hooks attached to the wall(P.B did not know why) just below them and released the other end as it swayed. P.B first got down, followed by Mendes girl and then Alvin as they left the rope hanging there. " We have got 15 minutes in our hands, we better steal the chip before the cameras start showing the real images," he instructed. This was the most critical part of the mission. "That's your work, I'll just sip coffee here," Chipmunk said as he pretended to drink coffee by holding an imaginary cup. "Your behaviour is also counted, mister," Mendes girl said whacking Alvin's head. She nodded towards P.B to continue. P.B was standing in front of a glass case having a small chip on its bottom. He breathed as he took out a round disc which clung on his belt and attached the end of the wire that came out of the disc and joined it to the back side of the glass case that was kept on a stand. There were about 5 stands in the room. He commenced typing at a fast pace. Numbers and alphabets clouded the screen. He smiled as he hacked into the system. This skill had brought him some delightful memories and where there are delightful memories there is gloom behind them. There was a click followed by the automatic opening of the glass door making a hissing sound. He succeeded. P.B used his gloved hand and took the chip out and held it tightly in his palm. He has officially committed a crime. Not that he has not done it before. P.B looked at Alvin and made a decision. He held the chip out to him as Chipmunk raised an eyebrow. P.B spoke-" Well you did about fifty per cent of the job so here is your reward, don't keep it forever, we have to give it to Jer." Alvin picked the chip and kept it in his side bag and closed the flap-"Thanks." P.B nodded as he looked at his sister. Then at his disc which was right now working like a computer. Alvin scrambled towards the rope still hanging from the hook and started climbing it by pushing one foot at a time. Making sure gravity does not work its magic. P.B was about to back up too as he removed the wire but more information started coming out of nowhere. "762A01- This chip is extremely severe and.." P.B started reading as his sister poked him-" Hello I am pretty sure you don't want to spend your time in jail." P.B held out his hand telling her to stop. "Wait, just a sec." "...is the key to some of the most lethal viruses and if it spreads it will..." P.B stopped as he heard his sister whispered loudly-"What the fu** are you doing?" P.B closed his tab and put it back on his belt and followed where his sister was looking when his eyes finally landed on Chipmunk. He was pulling the rope back up. P.B tried to think positive because he was scared of the truth he was going to face. "Chipmunk what are you doing?" He first got a grunt and then a response-" Stop calling me that." P.B was confused. Alvin was not like this before. He looked up at them smiling. P.B said-"Alvin stop joking around and give us the rope. We had a plan." "No, you had a plan," Alvin said pointing at them, "Turns out I have my own." P.B realized that he had given him the chip. "Chipmunk this is not expected or accepted," Mendes girl said her expression turning serious. "Call me that once more," Alvin said as he took out a gun from his pocket which P.B was not able to see thanks to the darkness," You will pay the price." Mendes girl raised her hands up completely baffled. Is he out of his goddamn mind?-" So what are you gonna do, shoot us now?" At the word 'shoot', her fraternal twin stood up in front of her shielding her from Chipmunk's bullet. In the movies, you see that the heroes can easily shoot at a person who is aiming at them. But this was the reality. One of them would get killed if the other moves. P.B slowly put his hands up. "Aw! Who does not like an over-protective brother? Too bad that Mendes girl will remain single her entire life." Chipmunk said dramatically keeping his aim firm on both of them. "You would never get away with this. Once Jerry gets to know about it he will not kill you, he will maroon you to the Atacama desert. You don't know what you are doing," P.B wished that he could physically punch Chipmunk as he imagined it so perfect in his brain. Chipmunk scoffed-"Oh really? Because I think I am the only person in this room what the hell he is doing! At least I know my goals, what about you? You just do these frivolous things for some petty money!" P.B understood what he said at once but Mendes girl had to rack her brain before doing so. "You don't know anything about us, there is a long story behind it." He replied sharply. Before Alvin could say anything Mendes girl said-"Just shoot us already." Yup, she sounded more bored that she preferred death before it. P.B looked at her and realized that it was finally time to call the mental hospital. "My pleasure," he said and pulled the trigger. But he shifted his gun and changed his aim- to the glass case which had the stolen chip. 'Bang' P.B covered his ears in surprise. The glass shattered and alarms started blaring loudly. "HA! You really think I was going to get rid of you! I just need to keep you away for a while!" P.B saw that the gun was not pointed at them anymore. He held his sister's hand and started running towards their right. Alvin saw that coming hence shot at the glass case which was near them. They stopped again, and Mendes girl was worried that her brother got hurt. She looked at him as he saw a hint of blood coming from P.B's knee. The glass which had shattered- scratched P.B's suit. "Not yet! Want to give the guards a decent headstart," Chipmunk said as noises of incoming footsteps could be heard from the background. Mendes girl looked at him, shooting daggers at him as P.B tried to stop the blood flow. "Yup that's my cue! Say hello to the detention cell's warden from me," Chipmunk said saluting them with his gun as both the twins silently wished that it would go off. Too bad it didn't. Then he disappeared. The twins looked at each other than immediately went off in different directions. They both sat against the stands having the undamaged glass cases on it. P.B wished he had not given him the chip. Ugh! One man appeared followed by another and more people came from the entrance, their guns tugged on their belts, inspecting who broke in. Then they revealed it pointing it at the shattered glass as they laid their eyes on that first. P.B looked at his sister as she started removing a crossbow from her belt and loaded it. Then she looked at him as he made a cross saying that -we can't resort to violence in American sign language. She signed to him that she doesn't want to get arrested. It's too risky fighting by hand. He sighed in response. Mendes girl stood up and shot a man on the leg. the man slowly showed signs of convulsion then fell, lying on the ground unconscious. "Well shuck it," P.B cursed under his breath as the guards started shooting at them. He slowly took out his tranquillizing gun and stood up to react when someone held his right hand. Being caught off-guard, he dropped his gun because the attacker also twisted his wrist. "How stupid!" P.B thought to himself. He took some time to observe who his attacker was. It was a man clearly looking as if he was 15 years older than P.B with a trimmed beard and had amber eyes. He was enormously tall but his brains seemed as if they were in the feet, he was not carrying a weapon at all. Before Pimple Boy could react, the man threw a heavy punch on P.B's right cheek. He was caught off guard and muttered a curse not really accepting to ears at all. Before the man could land another punch on P.B, he attacked. He punched him with his left hand repeatedly on the stomach of his rival with his right hand still bound. Without a pause. P.B let out his anger, angry on the chipmunk, angry at the bearded man and the worst of all- Scared that he might fail his Geography test. The bearded man continued to hold his hand while trying to figure out how to defend himself. Then P.B immediately lifted his knee and kicked him right on the groin as he himself knows the consequences. The bearded man released his right hand and winced with pain. With that settled, he finally made the man unconscious by swinging his right elbow and elbowing him right on the nose. He fell. He looked at the man for a while. Tilting his head in amusement. Then he finally broke out of his trance and picked up his gun which was lying right beside his feet. He looked in front as two men lifted their guns, aimed at him. P.B rolled and took cover beside the stand as their bullets landed on the ground where P.B was initially standing. He quickly reloaded his gun and shot the two of them- one on the leg and the other on the wrist. They dropped their weapons and showing small convulsions, then fell on the ground snoring loudly. "Well, they got their sleep, wish I got that too," Pimple boy mumbled to himself. Then he finally realized that his sister was also there. He looked around trying to find her as he shot four men in a row. He didn't give a second glance. He was only thinking about her. More people started coming and as he shot one man who fell on his knees, he spotted Mendes girl's hair. He ran towards her, a bullet barely missing him. She had turned a table (which P.B did not notice before) on its edge as the table now became an effective cover for her. Her twin ran towards her and joined her. "What are we supposed to do?" Pimple Boy said as he gritted his teeth by shooting one man in two shots. "I guess we should surrender?'' That came more like a question. Even in the seriousness of the situation, he snorted. "Hey bro! You know it is not a video game," she said as she pulled the string of her crossbow and sent her arrow having an injection at the end to a random man's neck. "Yeah, but people are falling left and right!" Well, he was not wrong. Then a voice could be heard by the both of them. Their younger brother was communicating through a gadget which served as a source of light before in the duct- " Are you partying down there? What the hell is going-" "Long story short, Alvin ditched us, ditched us in the gadget room, we just found new companions who are really trying to kill us," Pimple boy said like a poem. "In short- you are not partying?" Was the reply. Mendes girl interjected-" STFU! (Both of her brothers cringed), help us or what?" She was so busy putting people to sleep her grammar messed up. "If you can come to the terrace, Landy and I can pick you up," He said and added," just stick with the names." " We try," both of them said in unison and looked at each other as their brother was out. Then they continued with their business shooting at the guards one by one. It was not really as tough as it was before. Mendes girl-"It's kind of your fault too, why the heck did you give the chipmunk the chip." Pimple boy-" I was trying to be nice." "Nice, my ass." "I swear if you said that to a boy I will-" "-kill me." "Stop with that-" "proof that your twin brother is stupid.'' "Mendes girl-" "-is amazing and talented, agreed." P.B silently cursed-" Is there a fire escape, here?" "I don't think-there!" She said pointing at a door on which was written-"Emergency Staircase." They both looked at each other, silently agreeing that their conversations will continue and ran towards their way out of this trap. Beads of sweat rolled down P.B's forehead as he looked back making sure nobody was following them. And also it was quite tough, owing to the number of people lying on the floor snoring peacefully. Then he looked in front and saw someone holding onto Mendes girl's hair and shoved her into a wall. P.B's eyes widened as he quickened his pace and pounced upon that someone and was soon on his stomach, firing repeated punches on his face. "You son of a --" He was cut off by his sister who pulled, more like yanked up his right arm and P.B stood up looking at the guard. " We don't want murder here," she said professionally and pulled the handle of the door which was providentially unlocked. Then she twisted her body towards him as soon as they were ready-"Thanks pimple boy." Pimple boy incompetently brushed his hair and both of them hastened to the staircase. They skipped one step at a time, their bodies begging them to stop but they didn't. They continue to climb the stairs. ***** He heard snores, loud snores as he slowly started waking up. He looked up, at the upper bunk of the bunk bed. He pushed his hands on the mattress and rubbed his eyes when he was finally in a sitting position. He pounded at the bottom of the bed above him- "Stop with the snoring. Let me sleep!" Even though he was kind of happy that he didn't see the full dream. He got a fart in response as he scrunched his nose, disgusted-" That was not the response. Say goodbye to your wifi for a day." "No..." he heard faint sounds and the snoring stopped. He smiled triumphantly and lied down on his bed. He turned right to see the clock hung on the wall. 01:35 am. The time of the same night... He then lied on his back, both of his hands on the back of his head thinking about his dream. He was not a big fan of it. In fact, he wished that that was just a dream not a memory. Even though he survived that night, his dream which is only the first part of it he could not help but imagine the other consequences. Then he closed his eyes blocking it all. But he knew it was certain that- He and his family are not safe. ***** Stay tuned for the second part of the night. To all the amazing readers out there, thank you so much for giving this book a chance!! (P.S I know it is much better than the prologue before.)